Sixty Feet, Six Inches Fantasy Baseball

Pitchers and catchers are just around the corner, followed by spring training, the World Baseball Classic, and baseball season.

More importantly, however, fantasy baseball season is coming up, and we made a league.

If you want to join, send an e-mail to [e-mail] or post your e-mail address in the comments section here, and we'll mail you the league ID and password. The league is hosted on Yahoo, so if you don't have a Yahoo account, you'll need to get one.

The settings are as follows:

Stat categories:

For hitters:
Home runs
Batting average
RBI
Steals
On-base percentage

For pitchers:
WHIP
ERA
Strikeouts
Quality starts (Instead of wins. A quality start is 6 innings or more pitched with 3 runs or less surrendered.)
Inherited runners scored (For relievers, because we all feel like saves are a crappy stat)

The rosters will be a full 25-man roster, featuring the following:

1 player at each starting position, 1 utility player, 1 extra outfielder, 5 starting pitchers, 3 relief pitchers, 2 pitchers of any kind, 5 bench players. The disabled list will have room for three players.

The scoring is the traditional rotisserie method, rather than the head-to-head format popular in fantasy football. This can change if the majority of members prefer head-to-head (or points only) scoring.

For those unfamiliar with roto scoring, it's better in my opinion for a long season like baseball.

The way it works is best demonstrated through an example. Say we have five teams in a league. Now say that my team totalled more home runs between my players than any other team. I would get five points; one for each team in the league.

The player with the second most home runs would get four points, the player with the third most would get three, and so on down the line. We do this for every stat, add the results together, and at the end of the season the team with the most points wins the league.

The reason I like this better is simple: in roto scoring, you have to worry about having a good team and making good personnel decisions all year. In a head-to-head league, you just have to be adequate for the majority of the season and then snatch up the best September call-ups and you have yourself a league championship.

Each stat becomes far more important to the success of your team when you don't just have to beat the guy who didn't draft any base-stealing threats, but now your players have to out-steal EVERYONE to get the most points.

Anyway, like I said, if you're interested in joining the league, let us know and we'll send you an invite.

As it stands right now, the draft date is March 29 at noon EST, but that is VERY preliminary and will likely change. If/when it does, we'll send you an e-mail and make a post on here to let you know.

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